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Definition of: feretory
(fer′ə·tôr′ē, -tō′rē) noun plural ·ries
1. A portable shrine for the relics of saints; a reliquary.
2. The place in a church where the shrine is kept; a fixed shrine. [Alter. of earlier fertre <OF fiertre <L feretrum <Gk. pheretron <pherein bear]
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